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Relabel Target Endpoint Identifier to Endpoint Identifier #78

Open adammontville opened 6 years ago

adammontville commented 6 years ago

It doesn't seem that a target endpoint identifier should be any different from the identifier for an endpoint that is not targeted.

henkbirkholz commented 6 years ago

An endpoint that is neither a Target Endpoint nor a SACM Component is an Excluded Endpoint (or "explicitly excluded target endpoint" if you will).

Having said that, it is correct that in this case we could omit the "target" in the term and the definition would be still correct.

I am neutral in this matter, with maybe slightly in favor of removing target in the term name and elaborating in the definition that this identifier is commonly used to differentiate and identify target endpoints.

adammontville commented 6 years ago

Proposed definition:

Endpoint Identifier is a subset of endpoint attributes included in an endpoint characterization record, that is used to identify a given endpoint.

With expositional text:

Depending on the available identifying attributes, this reference can be ambiguous and is a "best-effort" mechanism. Every distinct set of identifying endpoint attributes can be associated with a target endpoint label that is unique in a SACM domain.

henkbirkholz commented 6 years ago

I am okay with this change. One minor detail: I think we have to call it "identifying information elements" now.